- Richard Mabey
- Fiona MacCarthy
- Ian McDonald AA
- Ian McEwan CBE
- Robert Macfarlane
- Roger McGough CBE
- Patrick McGrath
- Shena Mackay
- Denis Mack Smith CBE FBA
- Rory MacLean
- Margaret MacMillan
- Candia McWilliam
- Brenda Maddox
- Noel Malcolm FBA
- David Malouf
- Norman Manea
- Alberto Manguel
- Philip Mansel
- Hilary Mantel CBE
- Patrick Marber
- Patrick Marnham
- Adam Mars-Jones
- Philip Marsden
- Rosalind Marshall
- Allan Massie
- Douglas Matthews FCLIP, Benson Medallist
- Glyn Maxwell
- Derwent May
- Geraldine McCaughrean
- Ved Mehta
- Edward Mendelson
- Jeffrey Meyers
- Mary Midgley
- Karl Miller
- Michael Millgate
- Pankaj Mishra
- Rohinton Mistry
- Julian Mitchell
- Deborah Moggach
- Caroline Moorehead OBE
- Geoffrey Moorhouse
- Elaine Morgan
- Michael Morpurgo OBE
- Jan Morris CBE
- Blake Morrison
- Nicholas Mosley (Lord Ravensdale MC)
- Sir Andrew Motion
- Ferdinand Mount (Bt)
- Paul Muldoon
- Alice Munro
- Richard Murphy
Robert Macfarlane – Year of election 2011
Robert Macfarlane’s first book, Mountains of the Mind (2003), a history of ‘why people went to mountains’, won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The Wild Places (2007) took the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and the Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award. When not ‘nature writing’, Macfarlane teaches English at Cambridge.